White House Releases New Tools For Digital Strategy Anniversary by Caitlin Fairchild.
From the post:
The White House marked the one-year anniversary of its digital government strategy Thursday with a slate of new releases, including a catalog of government APIs, a toolkit for developing government mobile apps and a new framework for ensuring the security of government mobile devices.
Those releases correspond with three main goals for the digital strategy: make more information available to the public; serve customers better; and improve the security of federal computing.
Just scanning down the API list, it is a very mixed bag.
For example, there are four hundred and ten (410) individual APIs listed, the National Library of Medicine has twenty-four (24) and the U.S. Senate has one (1).
Defenders of this release will say we should not talk about the lack of prior efforts but focus on what’s coming.
I call that the bank robber’s defense.
All prosecutors want to talk about is what a bank robber did in the past. They never want to focus on the future.
Bank robbers would love to have the “let’s talk about tomorrow” defense.
As far as I know, it isn’t allowed anywhere.
Question: Why do we allow avoidance of responsibility with the “let’s talk about tomorrow” defense for government and others?
If you review the APIs for semantic diversity I would appreciate a pointer to your paper/post.
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